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But today state debts are large and future debts -- say, pension liabilities -- even bigger.
These gains remain politically controversial, but so are higher debts and taxes.
Having reached the point at which taxes can scarcely be increased further, these governments cannot both repay their debts and keep welfare spending at current levels.
By focusing the QE debate on risk-sharing, Draghi managed to distract Germany from an infinitely more important issue: the enormous size of the QE program, which completely defied the German taboo against monetary financing of government debts.
Or he could have adopted a less aggressive strategy: Concede from the start the German principle that debts are sacrosanct and then show that austerity could be eased without any reduction in the face value of Greek debt.
The sovereign-debt crisis started with weak fiscal positions and doubts about the sustainability of public debts, combined with structural deficits that led to a loss in competitiveness.
The government quickly collapsed and was replaced by one that devalued the currency and defaulted on the country’s debts.
Its soaring deficits and unsustainable debts were symptoms of serious pathologies: a dysfunctional public sector, an uncompetitive private sector, and an elite that abdicated its responsibilities and, rather than facing the challenges of the day, used the state as a means to supply jobs to political loyalists.
Why Eurobonds are Un-AmericanBRUSSELS – The emerging consensus in Europe nowadays is that only “debt mutualization” in the form of Eurobonds can resolve the euro crisis, with advocates frequently citing the early United States, when Alexander Hamilton, President George Washington’s treasury secretary, successfully pressed the new federal government to assume the Revolutionary War debts of America’s states.
Federal assumption of the states’ war debts also yielded an advantage in terms of economic development: once states no longer had any debt, they had no need to raise any revenues through direct taxation, which might have impeded the growth of America’s internal market.
While Japan’s gross public debt, for example, is a massive 246% of GDP, the net figure, accounting for intra-government debts, is 127% of GDP.
Similarly, spectacular deflation in many countries around the world in the early 1930’s magnified the real value of (unhedged and unindexed) debts, leading to millions of defaults and widespread bank failures.
Much of Japan’s economic malaise in recent years also reflects (unhedged and unindexed) debts magnified by deflation since 1999.
In effect, the long-term bondholders would guarantee the rest of a bank’s debts, including the riskiest ones.
A more aggressive approach would compensate bankers with the same bonds that guarantee their institutions’ short-term, volatile, and risky debts.
Since the renminbi began its downward slide in 2015, the incentive to reduce foreign debts and increase overseas assets has intensified.
China’s total foreign debts (public and private), already very low by international standards, have fallen from 9.4% of GDP ($975.2 billion) at the end of 2014 to 6.4% of GDP ($701.0 billion) by the end of last year.
Most told the researchers that they were motivated by a desire to pay off their debts, but six years later, three-quarters of them were still in debt, and regretted having sold their kidney.
But in recent weeks and months, Americans have seen several instances in which individuals have been dispossessed of their houses even when they have no debts.
An individual with, say, debts equal to 100% of his income could be forced to hand over to the bank 25% of his gross, pre-tax income for the rest of his life, because, the bank could add on, say, 30% interest each year to what a person owed.
This could then have been complemented by a simultaneous agreement to restructure private debts.
Most manufacturing enterprises will also benefit from lower energy costs, improving their ability to service their debts.
He mentions the 1932 default on its World War I debt owed to the United States, the debts accumulated after World War II, and the UK’s “serial dependence on International Monetary Fund bailouts from the mid-1950’s until the mid-1970’s.”
John Maynard Keynes predicted accurately that all of these debts would end up in default.
Rogoff’s discussion about the debts accumulated after WWII is beside the point.
But high debts will mean high taxes.
Eight years of 7% average annual GDP growth during Putin’s previous presidency (2000-2008) allowed Russia to repay its debts, accumulate almost $600 billion in foreign-currency reserves, and join the leading emerging economies.
Inflation was beaten back; the country’s huge communist era debts pared down and paid off; the economy began to grow; membership in Nato was negotiated successfully.
The Economic Case Against Bush's Tax CutNEW YORK: Washington politicians are worried over signs that America’s great structural boom of the past five years is over: a poorer outlook for profits, increased corporate debts, and a related slowing of business investment in fixed capital, new customers and new employees.
In the 1990s this ameliorist spirit was expressed in the policy of setting tax rates high enough to pay off the government’s debts and to emerge with a positive net asset position – and the possibility of falling tax rates in the future.
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